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SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Roadmap

Find out what the team is developing, and check out what’s new in SQL Toolbelt Essentials

The mission

To make SQL Server development faster, more reliable and more consistent, whether databases are hosted on premises, in the cloud, or both.

Empowering teams to increase efficiency, reduce deployment risk and bring consistency and control to SQL Server development.

SQL Toolbelt Essentials includes 10 ingeniously simple tools built to cover every stage of development:

  • SQL Prompt
  • SQL Compare
  • SQL Data Compare
  • SQL Doc
  • SQL Test
  • SQL Source Control
  • SQL Dependency Tracker
  • SQL Data Generator
  • SQL Multi Script
  • SQL Search

What's new

New SQL Prompt AI features

With Fix SQL, you can quickly fix broken queries and keep your workflow uninterrupted. While Optimize SQL allows you to effortlessly speed up slow queries.

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SQL Prompt: SQL Server 2025 preview support

SQL Prompt now supports SQL Server 2025 preview syntax, including recognition of newly introduced keywords, data types, and functions.

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SQL Prompt: SQL History fixes

We’ve released several bug and performance fixes for SQL History to ensure a smoother experience.

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SQL Prompt AI

With SQL Prompt’s opt-in AI-powered features, you can write and modify SQL accurately using natural language, get clear explanations of unfamiliar code, and uncover performance-boosting index suggestions in seconds.

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SQL Prompt: Entra ID MFA Authentication

SQL Prompt now uses a dedicated Microsoft Entra ID application to authenticate users to Azure SQL Database instances.

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SSMS 21 Support

SQL Prompt, SQL Doc, SQL Data Generator, SQL Dependency Tracker, SQL Multi Script, SQL Source Control, SQL Search and SQL Test are now compatible with SSMS 21.

SQL Prompt: Support for Azure Synapse Serverless and Dedicated SQL Pools

You can now use SQL Prompt when working with Azure Synapse Serverless and Dedicated SQL Pools.

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SQL Prompt: Bulk delete SQL query history

Configure your SQL History retention period and delete query versions based on set days.

SQL Prompt: Results grid aggregates

Within the results grid, you can view the aggregate values of a selection of cells. You can also view the distinct count within the aggregate results.

What's next

In Development

Support for SQL Server 2025

SQL Prompt AI improvements

SQL Prompt: Support for Fabric

Performance improvements and bug fixes

Researching

SQL Prompt: Preview support for VS Code

New and improved team-based capabilities

Integrating SQL Prompt capabilities into other Redgate tools

SQL Compare: Agent Jobs

Suggest a new feature

Further resources

Free trial

Try SQL Toolbelt Essentials for free

Trial SQL Toolbelt Essentials for 14 days with full functionality.

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Get started with SQL Toolbelt Essentials

Learn how to standardize SQL Server database development using SQL Toolbelt Essentials.

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